Thread 22. Sunak: Taxes, Truth and Tories

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The previous thread filled up fast, so here's another one with a reasonably topical title!

I imagine they’ll welcome just about anyone right now with the disillusionment of so much of their traditional support.

"UK joins Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia"

For reference, the government's own estimates suggest this "benefit of Brexit" will add a grand total of 0.08% to the UK economy over 10 years, compared to the 4% we are losing from leaving the EU

That part of gloucester is near Barton ward, an area with a high Muslim demographic, it also covers the hospital and the University. I think I would have been surprised if it had stayed conservative in this climate.

I give you Badenoch

"I'm not going to play that game." Badenoch refuses to reveal on LBC how beneficial the trans-Pacific trade could be.

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1641725267591991296?s=20

Reminds me of the Dianne Abbott police interview that got so much derision.

And it could come good by 2050 - that’s no good to me, I’ll be dead by then!

I know I always link to Matt Green videos- I swear I am not affiliated to him in anyway I just find the videos very funny!

CPTPP - probably belongs on the Brexit thread but I've lost it.

twitter.com/mattgreencomedy/status/1641823837254819843?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Some posters seem to think that posting irrelevant links on as many threads as possible is helpful. In contrast an occasional Matt Green link always lightens the mood.

I think CPTPP has a place on both threads

link
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/eu_referendum_2016_/4732486-brexit-mega-thread-part-10-whats-the-story-incompetence-tax-evasion-dodgy-loans-and-economic-free-fallnothing-to-see-herecheck-out-those-sunlit-uploands

Thanks for the link Duncin

I am laughing this morning. Listening to Sophy Ridge on Sky and she has Braverman on, and she is saying the queues at Dover are nothing to do with Brexit!

Is she deluded? Some schoolchildren have been waiting 16 hours! Every passport needs to be checked and stamped, because we are now a third country, whereas before they were just waved through.

"I don't think it is fair to say this is an adverse effect of Brexit" are her exact words.

Has she said what’s causing those queues that never used to exist?

John Redwood thinks we should holiday in the UK instead. Clearly 💩 on beaches isn't an issue for the Redwood family.

She was desperate to blame the French but didn't. No, she avoided saying why it has happened... and brushed it all off

“I’m not familiar with that particular case”.

Suella Braverman says she didn’t know about 12 refugees being killed in Rwanda in 2018 after protesting about their conditions.

Moments earlier she insisted “Rwanda is safe for refugees”.

“Rwanda is a safe country” she repeats.

twitter.com/paulbranditv/status/1642441973364555776?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Either she's very poorly advised or she's lying through her teeth - which do we think it might be?

It was ridiculous to watch

The gymnastics in trying to avoid having to answer about this was hilarious. Of course she knew. She just did not want to face the question.

His kids are in their 40s and I don’t suppose he ever goes near a beach. Probably spends his holidays killing things in Scotland.

I don't think he would be going to Wales after the one thing I remember about him.
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Braverman appears to have said she will eliminate child abuse by focusing on "British Pakistani males who hold values incompatible with our culture"
Its in the DM but I refuse to read it directly
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/suella-braverman-attacks-silence-over-british-pakistani-child-abuse-gangs/amp_articleshow/99186857.cms

I hate her. Deal with abusive men, rather than pretending this is a race issue.

@AdamRyan

I so agree. 1000% I found her tone upsetting especially as we have that culture in our family.

It is a grooming problem. Not a particular race. White British men groom children too.

She is a disgusting person.

Also most of the abusers are white
https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1642445575726481410?s=20

Populist bullshit lies to stir up racial division

Well done Adil Ray. He is great. It needs calling out.

That report should be held up every time Braverman tries it on.

Either she's very poorly advised or she's lying through her teeth - which do we think it might be?

She wouldn't know a truth if it punched her on the nose.

Tutored by the finest, all Boris cronies are the same.

She is just vile, channelling dog whistle racism because it is all they have left.